[AT] CAT magneto

[Terry Welch]

You need to know who to talk to at the dealer as yes they had them in the Minn. ware house as of last summer. That is where they keep the older parts the local Cat parts man told me. Yes they were more than aftermarket. But they had them. Like JD, Case IH and the others, None of the new parts guys want to look them up. As they need to go to the Microfisch. 
Terry




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From: John Hall <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 12:44:23 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] CAT magneto

Gene and Joe, thanks for your comments.

A fellow brought me the cap, rotor and points yesterday out of his grader 
to see if I could help him with some new parts. I cleaned the cap up and 
installed new brushes. The rotor is a yellowish phenolic/bakelite part that 
has a gazillion cracks in it. I told him to try a tad of Super glue to see 
if it would seal the cracks. The points were burnt but i polished them to 
work well enough. Looking at the points they resemble something by 
Faribanks. I've got a bunch of NOS Eismann stuff but it is all for big 
magnetos--and the funny thing is I have never worked on an Eismann. Of 
course Cat told the guy nothing was available--I'd hate to pay their price 
if it was!

The fellow was going to see if he could find any writing (model #) without 
taking the mag off. If he can't I just wanted to know what possibilities 
there were before I start hunting a new rotor or if he had to pull the mag 
off.

John 

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